The Discovery of Buwenzori. 
of the Moon ” in the volcanic chain which stretches between 
Lake Kivn and Lake Albert Edward, more especially in 
the highest of the volcanic peaks, Mt. Nfumbiro; but 
NATIVE HUT IN UGANDA. 
none of these mountains are covered with snow. Stanley 
had certainly far stronger grounds for his opinion that the 
“Mountains of the Moon” of Ptolemy are to be identified 
with Buwenzori, which alone answers in all essential points to 
the descriptions of the ancient geographers. It consists of a 
vast mountain range covered with everlasting ice and snow and 
shedding its waters into the basin of the Upper Nile from 
all its slopes. Bising, as it does, out of the midst of a tropical 
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